Charles Meade (December 24, 1916 – April 10, 2010) was the founder of an church called Meade Ministries based in Lake City, Florida.
Meade was born to a farming family in Oil Springs, Kentucky (west of Paintsville), the ninth child of his mother. According to church literature he was the twelfth of fifteen children.
As a young man, Meade served in the United States armed forces on the front lines in World War II, and earned eight Bronze Stars. According to church literature he was seriously injured more than once, but there is no indication of this in his service record. During the early 1970s Meade began to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to various groups of young people in their late teens and early twenties. They met in living rooms, garages and various meeting places throughout the United States.
He founded End Time Ministries (now Meade Ministries, Inc.) In 1984, he relocated his ministry from South Dakota and Indiana to Lake City, Florida. According to the church, God told Charles Meade that Lake City, Florida, would be the only place that believers could survive Armageddon.
Meade was married twice, first to Marie Meade who died of breast cancer on 24 October 1985, and then in November 1985 to Marlene Helen Malthesen.